Oscar winner Denzel Washington is set to pick up the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film at the Bafta/LA Cunard Britannia Awards later this year.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts in Los Angeles will honour Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood with the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for excellence in film.

The Producers Guild of America has given the makers of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King the top award at the 15th Annual Producers Guild of America Awards.

Hours after being forced to apologise following fresh allegations that he groped women, California governorship candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger was confronted with claims that he had once spoken of his admiration for Adolf Hitler.